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The After-Life In Ancient Greece

by Joshua J. Mark
published on 18 January 2012

In ancient Greece the continued existence of the dead depended on their constant remembrance by the living. The after-life, for the ancient Greeks, consisted of a grey and dreary world in the time of Homer (8th century BCE) and, most famously, we have the scene from Homer's Odyssey in which Odysseus meets the spirit of the great warrior Achilles in the nether-world... [continue reading]

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The Mayan Pantheon: The many gods of the Maya

by Joshua J. Mark
published on 07 July 2012

The pantheon of the Maya is a vast collection of deities who were worshipped throughout the region which, today, comprises Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas in Mexico and southward through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. Not all of the gods were venerated in all of the city-states of the Maya (at least, not by the same... [continue reading]

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Emperor Qin in the Afterlife

by Jennifer Wolff
published on 16 April 2012

Of the many great archaeological ﬁnds in the 20th century, one of the grandest is the discovery of Emperor Qin Shihuangdi’s terracotta army. The ruler of the state of Qin, King Cheng, proclaimed himself the First Emperor of China in 221 BC taking the name Shihuangdi (ﬁrst sovereign). After hundreds of years of open warfare between the different... [continue reading]

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